First things first, How to start a blog?

by Tamal Anwar on July 2, 2008

It’s a simple question how to start a blog? Blogs are a special sort of website and there are many companies are out there who are providing free blogs with tools and hosting. It’s almost a very easy step to start a blog. Just go to your provider’s website and register. Fill out the required informations and your blog is online!

Now you can ask me, where to find a good provider? There are many blog providers on the internet, the most trusted and better providers are, WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal etc.

This blog and my first blog, tamalanwar.com is setup under Blogger and they are a great service provider. You can choose for a paid service from WordPress.org blog which will cost you, $10 (700 tk) and additional charge for the hosting.

If you want to go for a free plan, then you could go for blogger or wordpress.com. If you sign up for a free blog, then your blog address will be yourname.provider.com. Like if you choose blogger, the address will be: yourname.blogspot.com.

With blogger, a bonus option is that, if you ever wanted to transform it into a real paid domain like yourname.com, blogger will allow you to do that. If you really desired to become a professional blogger, you have to own your domain like I did to my blog, tamalanwar.com.

But having a subdomain like yourname.blogspot.com is not bad and it will not effect on your blogging. You could visit Antonio’s blog, woork.blogspot.com. He is having 6000 daily visitors in his blog and earning more than $1000 from his blog alone. I’m sure you will start your own blog now and if you have already own one, start blogging!